. Descriptive time tables; Soo-Atlantic, Soo-Winnipeg, Soo-Pacific, Soo-Spokane-Portland, Twin cities-Chicago, Chicago-Superior-Duluth-Ashland : scenic through car routes . tinghere. On the great Shuswap lakes, theSicamous June. center of one of the best sportingAlt. 1,300 ft. regions on the line. Northward, within a day, caribou are abundant;the deer shooting southward with thirty miles is verygood, and on the lakes there is famous sport in deeptrolling for trout. The London Times has well des-cribed this part of the line:—The Eagle River leadsdown to the Great Shuswap Lake, so named fromthe
. Descriptive time tables; Soo-Atlantic, Soo-Winnipeg, Soo-Pacific, Soo-Spokane-Portland, Twin cities-Chicago, Chicago-Superior-Duluth-Ashland : scenic through car routes . tinghere. On the great Shuswap lakes, theSicamous June. center of one of the best sportingAlt. 1,300 ft. regions on the line. Northward, within a day, caribou are abundant;the deer shooting southward with thirty miles is verygood, and on the lakes there is famous sport in deeptrolling for trout. The London Times has well des-cribed this part of the line:—The Eagle River leadsdown to the Great Shuswap Lake, so named fromthe Indian tribe that lived on its banks and whostill have a reserve there. This is a most remark-able body of water. It lies among the mountainridges, and consequently extends its long, narrowarms along the intervening valleys like a hugeoctopus in half a dozen directions. These arms aremany miles long, and vary from a few hundredyards to two or three miles in breadth, and theirhigh, bold shores, fringed by the little narrow beachof sand and pebbles, with alternating bays andcapes, give beautiful views. The railway crossesoneXof^these arms by a drawbridge at Sicamous. Soo-Pacific True Scenic Route. 43 STATIONS Narrows, and then goes for a long distance alongthe southern shores of the lake, running entirelyaround the end of the Salmon arm. There is ahandsome new hotel at Sicamous, which affords com-fortable headquarters for those visiting the is the station for the mining and agricul-tural districts to the south, where there is a large set-tlement. A branch railway runs to Vernon andOkanagan, at the head of Lake Okanagan, a magni-ficent sheet of water on which the steamer Okana-gan plies to Kelowna and to Penticton at the foot ofthe lake, from which the mining region to the southis reached. At Penticton a strong land Companyhas purchased an extensive tract of land, which itis preparing to irrigate on an extensive plan. Thereis excellent hotel accommodation at Pe
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